u/Jadams0108

Husband here. Keep a long story short, back in 2020 we got a joint credit card early in our marriage through servus credit union. During Covid unemployment hit me hard and we went into a lot of debt including credit card debt, managed to pay it down to around only $1000 left before we went too long without paying and it was sent to collections in October 2024.

Fast forward to today, a court notice arrives in the mail, its listing my wife as the sole defendant and she is being sued for $1169 plus 25% interest for 2024-2026 for the credit card debt from wiggins collections.

Here is the very confusing part. I the husband was the main account holder and she was the co applicated. Further more, servus never once attempted to contact her about the debt, but has emailed me in the past regarding it.

Here’s where’s it more confusing, on her credit report the old credit card is reported as “closed” and not showing in collections, on my report it’s reported as closed and sent to collections and shows up on my report under the collections section, stating my name and that’s it’s between me and servus credit union, the collections section on her score is clean with nothing showing.

It just seems weird, firstly I’ve always heard of people being sued for big debts but never one this small, also it’s wierd as she is the sole defendant and my name is never mentioned once, despite the collection being on my report and me being the primary contact. My wife also has 0 income as a full time stay at home mom if that’s relevant. Not sure what to make of this as it’s kinda confusing why it’s for her and not me and not sure what the next best step is.

Just some general career questions for someone who works and lives in the province of Alberta. I’m already a journeyman red seal welder so im fully familiarized with how the schooling and apprenticeship system works in this province. I’ve been welding for about 7 years and it’s become a major drag for me, I make good money but not enjoying the work. I’ve heavily been looking at other trades to start a new career in, one of the ones that’s heavily caught my attention was millwright. When I was younger I remember doing a shutdown in a power plant near Edmonton, I got to work a ton with the mill wrights who were fixing the turbines and generators and had an absolute blast as tinkering and wrenching is right up my alley. Now I have no millwright friends and don’t really know any one to ask but here im wondering how’s the best ways to get started in the career and make the switch over? Thanks!

Just curious how everyone else who banks with td is doing and if this affected you? I’m normally paid by weekly Friday and today is Monday and still haven’t been paid, in fact none of my coworkers who bank with td have been paid but everyone else who banks elsewhere has. I phoned td and was told there is a systematic delay with direct deposits with no eta on when it’s fixed yet, which is weird cause there is 0 mention on Google of this at all. Anyways I’ve already missed a few bills and have just been waiting for something to happen and wanted to see if this happened with anyone else.

I just started watching it a few days ago and finally caught up, I was pretty excited when I saw the trailers for it, but watching the actual thing it’s been very mid, and way to much “murica” hyped up non sense that’s in so many other documentaries.

First, it feels like it skips so fast over certain topics, the whole battle of France was covered in like 5 minutes, they seem to focus heavy on some battles and fast forward over others, of course the operations that have American on the main stage seem to be getting a ton of attention.

Second is the whole hyping America up thing I mentioned. I started episode 5 and had a laugh when Tom hanks did the whole “American has a new weapon it’s ready to unleash on the seas….the aircraft carrier!” At the beginning. Umm sorry what? Carriers had already been around for 20 years prior to ww2 and a few countries had carriers. In fact Japan had way more carriers than American did for the first few years of the pacific, so doing this whole dramatic American is unleashing the beast with the carrier was just hilarious.

The episode then goes on to talks about convoys and how England needed aluminum to build aircraft, Tom hanks proceeds to say “there is only one place England can get its aluminum from….AMERICA!”. Again sorry what? Im Canadian and find such a statement funny and insulting given that Canada supplied up to 90% of the aluminum used by the British commonwealth, yep 90%, with Canada supply 40% of the overall aluminum used by all allied countries.

I don’t know so far it’s been just alright but it’s been a hard watch so far a times.

Question for both newer and long time listeners. If you had to pick a year to rank the best in terms of the JRE pod cast, what year you picking? I’m talking the year you think had the best episodes, most memorable guests, favourite replays, that kinda stuff.

For me, who’s been listening since 2015, I’d have to say 2018 is my favourite year. I’ve always been a bigger fan of pre Covid job than I have been post Covid joe. It was interesting hearing him talk about Trump in both good and bad ways during his first term and comparing to how joes views have changed post Covid. I really enjoyed the first Elon musk episode which also was in 2018. 2018 was also the year that had the infamous Alex jones and Eddie bravo episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson in #1159 was a good listen too, even the fight companions and some of my favourite Joey Diaz episodes are from 2018.

I think most people can agree that show and Joe definitely had a change after both Covid and Spotify, and personally, I liked the show better pre Spotify and think 2018 was peak pre Spotify Joe, but that’s just my opinion.

Seriously, so many posts here are American this and American that, I rarely see others discussing what it’s like as a Gen Z in other countries other than America on here. So feel free to comment where you’re from and tell us about what the Gen Z experience is like in your country?

I’ve been here in this sub for over a year now to partake in discussions that’s relevant to me as someone who’s Gen Z. It seems like so often there are vent and rant posts on here as well as the daily “Gen z is doomed posts”. These posts always seem to go the same way “I can’t find a boyfriend/girlfriend” “I’ll never find a job” “I got a useless degree” “I’m 22 and my life is over” these posts are pretty well daily now.

But what really gets me is how much people seem to be perpetual victims in their minds. In all of these posts I’ve seen users comment with some very helpful advice, including myself, trying to boost up our fellow Gen Z who is struggling, and on all of these posts almost always the OP does not give two shits about any help or advice and just argues back in the comment. Like your on here posting about how bad your life is, then when others offer advice, you just response by saying their advice is no good and “oh I can’t do this” “oh I can’t do that” “no my life is over and your advice means nothing to me”, it’s like your so shut off to everyone else and in your own doomer world in your head that any solid advice your given to improve your life does nothing’ for you, it just seems like people want to constantly be a victim of circumstance and don’t want to do what it takes to improve.

Never had this happen until yesterday. Not sure if it’s just a one off thing or what really happened so thought I’d ask.

Last night me and my wife were having sex. We were doing missionary and were going at a pretty good pace when I suddenly had this sensation like I was peeing, like it felt like my penis was pushing fluid out, immediately after it got very sensitive like it does when I cum. I pulled out and there was cum coming out of my wife and some still coming out of me, so clearly I came in her which is whatever.

The weird thing was that I didn’t feel it coming at all, I didn’t have an orgasm or get the sensations you get when your about to cum, I was just thrusting then suddenly I came, I only noticed because my dick got sensitive right after. Really not sure what to make of it, thankfully we are done having kids and can’t get pregnant so not a problem in that regard, but it just felt so weird cumming without even having an orgasm.

Lately I’ve been going through the phase of replaying older Lego games and watching videos of them being rated online and retrospective videos on these older titles. In basically every video I’ve watched so far, especially the ones rating levels from games, the vehicle levels get a ton of hate, always in the F tier, with the creator never having anything good to say about them, and it’s been like this is basically every video I’ve seen.

So are vehicle levels legit this hated? Or is this just something common in the Lego gaming YouTuber scene? I personally really enjoy most of the vehicle missions I’ve played. A lot of them offer a nice break from on foot gameplay and are fun in their own rights. Some of my favourite are the pod racing level in TCS, both Death Star missions, battle over courscant, all of the vehicle levels in LEGO Batman 1 as well. Back when I was a kid playing these games for the first time I used to use the vehicle missions to farm credits, it was fun, hell even the Minecart section in the first Indian jones was fun.

I will admit there is some bad ones. Bounty hunter pursuit is boring, remade gunship cavalry is a pain in the ass. But other than a small select few, most have been really fun to play, I can actually think of more on foot levels that I disliked than I can vehicle levels. Just a thought, does most of this community really hate vehicle levels that much?

Anyone else ever find themselves struggling in some cases to buy Canadian, mainly due to pricing or financial reasons? I love working on vehicles and I have a car right now that I got for dirt cheap that I’ve been fixing up, and when it comes to auto parts this is where the struggle has been real.

I need a new front end part for this car. Find a part that is made in china but from a company that is headquartered in Toronto, still a Canadian company that has factories in a few countries around the world. Now it comes time to buy the part from a retailer, there is an online American parts store that I’ve used for years selling it for $80 Canadian including shipping, shipping from the states. I decide to check a Canadian retailer to see what they can do for me to keep the purchases fully Canadian, find the exact same part, same brand part number and everything on the Canadian site, except they want $170…. That’s the hard part for me, it’s getting harder and harder to justify buying something for $170 in Canada when I can get the same part from the states for half the price, I’ve noticed it’s the worst with car parts, for some reason parts sell for way more in Canada, I’m not honestly sure why either. Grocieries it’s been easy as both Canadian and us products are usually on par with pricing. Anyone else have any specific market or area where it’s becoming a struggle to purchase Canadian?

Quite literally a Month ago today, my wife traded in her old Hyundai kona to a nissan dealership and ended up getting a 2023 Nissan rogue, which has been a great fit for our family.

Today we were taking it out for a drive around town running’s errands when I pulled into a parking lot and got the infamous “cvt service limp mode” message or something along those lines. Shut the car off then restarted it and it went away and hasn’t came back as of yet, but feeling worried. We’ve only had this car for 30 days and already got this message, plus it’s over the mileage cap on the warranty. I read that after 2020 Nissan improve their cvts and felt confident in the car we got, now I’m freaking out that I just bought a car that’s already done for only a month into owning, there is 0 room in our budget too for an out of pocket repair cost to replace the cvt. Guess just asking here as it’s late and can’t get it in for awhile to a shop.

Not sure really how else to title this post, but is it just me or does it seem like a lot of Gen Z is caring less and less about how they dress and look in public? When I’m talking about dress standards, I’m not saying everyone has to be wearing a tailored suit and dressed to the nines on every public outing, what I’m talking about is the wearing unwashed dirty clothes in public, wearing pyjama pants on a dinner date, wearing clothes that don’t fit well at all etc etc. the big one is pyjama pants, everytime I go out I see people wearing sleep wear in public and all the time they are looking my age or a little younger(I’m 25). Went to a somewhat nice restaurant the other day and had a Gen Z couple sitting a table away from me on a date, girl was pyjama pants and dude was stained sweats. I know most people would agree across all generations that dressing and grooming standards have dropped in society, but for some reason Gen Z seems to be the biggest generation that’s dropped in my opinion.

Shouldn’t have been a surprise, but I was actually caught off guard by my find. Was doing a clean out in our kitchen today when I came across an old unopened 12 pack of no name hot dog buns from superstore in our pantry, we bought a bunch for a backyard campfire party and had a pack that was still unopened. To my absolute surprise, the buns were still as good as new. 0 mold, didn’t feel stale at all, were still soft, my wife immediately pointed out how disturbing that is because we bought these buns months ago! It’s not a surprise that so much of their food as preservatives and stuff, but I was not prepared to find a 4-5 month old pack of buns with 0 mold and not stale…

Not sure if rant posts are allowed here, but this does directly relate to fishing in Alberta and something that needs to be talked about.

I’m a firm believer in taking care of nature while both fishing and hunting, leaving it better than you found it and clean for many others to come in the future. Today I decided to start my open season off by going to my favourite spot on the north sask(not sharing), which is a boat launch near a bridge. Drove down and parked my truck and was immediately greeted by the sight of litter all over the place, all of it fishing related. Starting off was dozens upon dozens of empty or even half used minnow and shiner containers, the frozen ones you get from Canadian tire, followed by empty hook and spooner wrappers all over the place, fishing line tangled into tree branches. The worst of all? The fucking pickerel rigs. Now I personally already don’t like pickerel rigs because I find them to be utter crap despite what they are hyped up to be, find they tangle so easy and are just a mess to use overall, but my god, they were everything, one tree had like 10 plus sets all netted together wrapped around the tree, the shore line littered with pickerel rigs.

Now I know there are a lot of good fisherman out there who take the time to clean up after themselves, but it’s the small group of fishermen who just don’t care that make the rest of us look like slobs, it’s a bad looks when someone who is a known fisherman walks up to that boat launch and sees fishing related garbage as far as the eye can see, just wanted to share cause I think it’s becoming a real problem that doesn’t get mentioned much. Also not sure what it is with the north Sask, but it seems worse there than any other river or lake I’ve been too when it comes to this issue.

First post here on this sub. I am 25 years old and about to start the online level 1 cwb course. I am currently a ticketed red seal journeyman welder, got my ticket in Alberta but living and working in Saskatchewan. I’ve been welding and working in the welding and piping field since I was 18, I don’t really enjoy the act of physically welding but love the technical aspect of the career and want to get started while I’m still young on a career path for inspections. I asked my current employer is there is much opportunity they can provide me to get me started but was told there isn’t a whole lot they can do, which means I am now starting to look at other jobs more seriously. With all that said looking for some guidance and advice on places to look at and any other tips, I live in a small community and there isn’t much for local shops here so willing to work on the road. Thanks!